It’s time for the conference finals. In the East, Dwayne Roloson has been arguably the best player of this post-season, back-stopping the Lightning to a third-round battle with the Boston Bruins. Out west, it’s a championship of chokers as the much-maligned Canucks will face the San Jose Sharks.

Wanye went over the standing among writers for the first two rounds yesterday, and I will have a ranking for everyone in Oilers Nation before the Stanley Cup finals begin. Until then, here are the writer picks for Round 3, and please get your picks in below.

Writer

VAN/S.J.

Games

BOS/T.B.

Games

Drance

VAN

5

T.B.

7

Gregor

S.J.

7

BOS

6

Lansky

VAN

7

BOS

5

Lowetide

VAN

7

BOS

7

Wanye

S.J.

6

BOS

6

Willis

VAN

6

BOS

6

Wilson

VAN

7

T.B.

7

Contest closes at puck-drop tonight.

In the meantime, I know I went with the consensus and picked Boston, but I will be cheering Dwayne Roloson and the Tampa Bay Lightning all the way to Game One of the Stanley Cup finals, at which point I fully expect Marc-Andre Bergeron to dump Tanner Glass all over his awesomely ancient goaltender.

Jonathan Willis is a freelance writer.
He currently works for Oilers Nation, Sportsnet and Bleacher Report.
He's co-written three books and worked for myriad websites, including the Edmonton Journal, Grantland, ESPN, The Score, and Hockey Prospectus. He was previously the founder and managing editor of Copper & Blue.

I think San Jose is going to kick Vancouver's teeth in one of the first two games, set the tone, and win a six game series.

Roloson is going to outwill Thomas and find a way to force, and then win, game seven. Stamkos will be quiet in the early part of the series but score a few key goals late to help put the Lightning over the top.

Thank you Heatley for not coming to Edmonton. We never would have been able build what we are building, and for that I hope you win the series.
**********SHARKS in 6 games.

And to all the Rollie lovers...I'm getting really sick and tired of his helmet constantly falling off at the most opportune times in games. There's gamesmanship and then there's that. I know, I know he did that for Edmonton in 06', but I was disgusted when he did it in the last minute of game 7 when the pens had a great scoring chance to tie it....and NO PENALTY. Old bastard just grins to himself and throws his loose helmet back on his head for the next opportune time. I can't respect that.

One more thing how can any self respecting Oiler fan cheer for Guy Boucher ....the next coming of Jacques Lemiare (GAME BASTARDIZERs)

Oh and Bergeron is on that team too....hate him...cant cheer for him....I want the 06 cup back!

Why is Oiler fan talking any smack at all? What are you on year 10 of your 5 year plan? Ohhh wow you have 3 rookies and Omark? Oh no! Sorry you WILL NOT be like Chicago because they had a thing called "goaltending" and "depth".

Why is Oiler fan talking any smack at all? What are you on year 10 of your 5 year plan? Ohhh wow you have 3 rookies and Omark? Oh no! Sorry you WILL NOT be like Chicago because they had a thing called "goaltending" and "depth".

I am sticking with my predictions, the Cup comes back to Canada!

pretty sure no one said vancouver was a bunch of un-talented hacks there while praising our oiler predicament.

i, like many others, despise the cansucks because of people/fan/not smart person like you.